The Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante (Spain), Bishop José Ignacio Munilla, has revealed that what has impacted him most during his stay in Ecuador on the occasion of the International Eucharistic Congress in Quito was the story of the martyrdom of a bishop and a politician hands of Freemasonry.
During the course of the program Sixth Continent which Mons. Munilla hosts every Monday and Friday on Radio María España, the prelate has shared his impression upon learning of the history of persecution suffered by President Gabriel García Moreno and the Bishop of Quito, Mons. José Ignacio Chueca y Barba.
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Both were the architects of Ecuador becoming the first nation to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus 150 years ago, which is why Quito has hosted the Eucharistic event in which the Spanish prelate participated.
“They were the subject of incredible persecution,” stressed Mons. Munilla, who recalled that, shortly after the consecration, “the President of the Government was murdered with machetes” and that Mons. Checa “was poisoned.”
Freemasonry wants to “occultly control consciences”
For the Spanish bishop, it is “an incredible story, because it seemed that liberal Freemasonry could not allow the country to be consecrated to the Heart of Jesus. Freemasonry wants, above all, that the powers of this world reign in hearts.”
“If someone in their heart recognizes God as their owner and Lord, then they are no longer subject to the powers of this world. And of course, if there is anything that Freemasonry has, it is this claim to covertly control consciences,” the prelate added.
Another detail that has impacted Bishop Munilla is that “not only were they murdered” but also “during the persecution they were so vicious that they wanted to destroy their bodies, so that there would be no memory of them.”
For this reason, they had to be hidden, “one of them walled up in a column so that no one would find it” in such a way that the years passed “until there was a risk that the memory of where they were hidden would be lost,” he said.
This persecution even extended to a commemorative painting commissioned by García Moreno. In it you can see the Sacred Heart of Jesus holding a globe in his hand. A ray of light, from the Sacred Heart, illuminates Ecuador. “That painting had to be exiled for 40 years in Chile,” explained the prelate.
Importance of the Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
“I was impressed by this history of religious persecution,” confessed the Spanish bishop, also because “here in Spain we also live it from Marxism and anarchism. And, curiously, in Ecuador we lived from liberalism. From liberal Freemasonry, Catholicism has also been viciously persecuted.”
Mons. Munilla explains that he has returned to Spain “with a treasure in my heart, in which I am aware of the importance of consecration to the Heart of Jesus.” The proof of this is “what kind of reactions there are. See if the consecration to the Heart of Jesus is important; the demon stirs in an incredible way when this happens,” he added.
From now on, a relic of the Ecuadorian bishop will remain in the chapel of Mons. Munilla. It is a fragment of the cassock cape that Mons. Chueca was wearing on March 30, 1877, when he was poisoned, and that he was given as a gift by some great-grandnephews to Mons. Munilla.
The Spanish bishop has stressed, in conclusion, the importance of remembering that there are many witnesses who have preceded us in the Church to understand “that the main thing in this life is that our heart belongs to God. My heart has an owner. In Jesus I am a son of the Father. And that is the main thing in this life.”